All the high protein corn distributed by Bryantsville Hunger Relief Project (BHRP) is grown on Rosehill Farms Inc., which is owned by the Sherwood family. The harvested corn is bought by BHRP each year from the farm corporation through donations from individuals, families and churches. The Sherwood family uses the money paid by BHRP to buy the seed corn and to pay for the cost of raising, harvesting, and storing the corn at the BHRP building on the farm. The labor needed for bagging, loading and administration is 100% volunteer help.We use groups of volunteers to clean, bag and stack the 60-pound bags. If you would like to bring a group to volunteer, please contact us. Here are some guidelines for volunteering:

Groups of 6 – 10 people are best.

Everyone in the group working in the barn should be middle school age or older.

About half the group needs to be able to move the 60-pound bags.

Working about two hours normally produces about half a semi truck load of bagged corn.

We can use groups of volunteers at anytime.

The photos below show the process volunteers will follow to prepare the corn for distribution. Click on a photo to open a larger slideshow.

Once prepared for distribution, corn is transported by semi truck; a full load of corn is 700 bags. The routing and shipping of the corn is left entirely to the mission that is receiving the shipment. Some corn routed for Central America is shipped in banana containers; some agencies, such as Feed the Children, have their own fleet of trucks; other agencies may have to shop for the best price, or possibly can find a generous hauler who contributes his equipment and time. All shipping expenses are paid by the receiving mission. When a group has a truck available to come to the storage facility, we gather another group of volunteers to load the truck.

Various benevolent agencies provide the shipping and distribution to areas of need. In the past, those areas have included Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, United States, Haiti, Guatemala, and Sudan and will vary from year to year depending upon disaster relief.

It is difficult for many of us to imagine the plight of families in Third World countries where corn is a staple food, yet cannot be obtained there. Even if they can obtain some corn it is of much lower food value because of the poor growing conditions and the lack of high protein food grade seed corn. Be assured that the shipments of high protein corn are in the hands of capable Christians who get the food to where the need is greatest. As many missionaries have told us, “It is hard to tell people about Jesus if they are starving.”